you could not run D3 on a cell phone.. not matter what you did to the game

have you even bothered to graph CPU and thread usage why playing the game? This game is not coded for AMD FX processors.

there are point where the GPU is waiting for the CPU to finish its thread. you cannot dispute this.

out of every test i've ran, D3 runs the best when i've got 6 cores clocked to 4.9 VS 8 cores @ 4.6-4.7

The extra cores are not used, you could even drop two modules and only likely see improvements as the game its self will use about 26% of a fx8350.

One core is always pegged 70%+ while 3 other are always under 15%.

I have similar experiences with ddo which drives me insane. But even after i oc 4 cores over 5 ghz the useage drops in first core down to 75-80(instead of 90 plus) and i still get bad framerates but better overall performance. DDO is a amd killer . I planned to get diablo eventually but hearing that is discouraging.

Hey guys,
found this thread by google. I've recently set up a FX-System consisting of following components

Asrock 990FX Extreme 4 Board

FX-8320 (1334 PGN )

Mushkin 2 x 8 GB DDR3-2400 @ 11-14-14-31-44 @ 1.65 V

I've been playing around the last few days with overclocking the system and found following Settings to be prime stable so far

200 x 20 = 4 GHz

HT 2600 MHz

NB 2600 MHz

VCore 1,35 V (1,252 V in CPU-Z @ load)

CPU NB Voltage 1,3 V

NB Voltage 1,16 V

HT Voltage 1,2

DRAM @ 1866 and 11-14-14-31-44

CoreTemp is running at about 45 °C under Prime-Load. But for the love of god, I am not able to get my RAM stable at its rated settings (DDR3-2400 @ 11-14-14-31-44). At 1,65 V I am not even able to boot into windows. I have to bump the DIMM-Voltage all the way up to 1,75 V to get the system into windows. The second Prime95-load is applied, the system freezes.

Any suggestions on which voltage I have to bump, to get the 2400 MHz stable?

mmmm... generally you need to bump the dimm voltage up a bit on Piledriver when using larger then 4gb ram chips. that said, the cpu/nb is your memory bridge to the cpu... and bumping that voltage a little might help you stabilize with less voltage being dumped into the ram.

mmmm... generally you need to bump the dimm voltage up a bit on Piledriver when using larger then 4gb ram chips. that said, the cpu/nb is your memory bridge to the cpu... and bumping that voltage a little might help you stabilize with less voltage being dumped into the ram.

ok, but afair 1,3 V is the limit for CPU/NB voltage under air - isnt't it? I've planed to decrease this voltage once my overclock is stable enough for a fine tuning.